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Yawn and Strech and try to come to life!

Butterfly barrette view 1
side view
front view from an angel
the back of the barrette
me holding barrette so you can kinda see the dimensions

Before I get to the barrett, let me tell you about the ‘title’ of today’s blog!

My poor hubby. He went into Walter Reid Army Hospital last night for an over-night sleep study. As I suspected he ‘failed’, he will now have to get used to life with a CPAP (continous pressure airway thingy) unfortunately he is not doing well with it. It is gonna take some getting used to!

I’m sorry for no post yesterday, the day kinda got away, I got alot done around the house and finished my chores up this morning so I can have some crafty time tonight and again tomorrow with my friend Theresa.

I had a wonderful call this afternoon from an old friend, we’ll get back in touch on Monday, I’m so excited! She is even going to treat me to lunch!

Ok, now onto day’s ‘experiment/project’. I had origionally made some barrettes for a butterfly swap on SCS. I liked the way they came out and have posted them here on the blog. However, my dear (enabler) husband suggested putting the butterfly on a twig. Umm, I haven’t gotten my hot glue gun out in a while. I started with the barrette, I then hotglued all the laywers on until I was satisfied with the layout, then I used some of the butterfly pins I had already made and pined them to the barrette, this way they look like they are in flight. I must tell you I did a ‘survey’ at my Wal-mart of folks and about 95% (short hair or not) would buy them. If you would like one, free shipping they are $12.00/each. You tell me the color(s) you want, I’ll get them out to you!

If you have an opportunity, please check out the Just Cards Magazine, Volume 10, Summer 2008 issue. I have cards published on pages 76,104 and 106. It never gets old, I’m just so excited!

The ‘cash’ portion of the blog candy pot is now $20.00. I will now include one of these beautiful barrettes. So far the pot has die cut flowers, the money, and the hair clip. Please leave comments and enjoy my blog. Any blog suggesstions, (good or bad) are appreciated.

Happy Stamping,

Here are the Pictures from the Black and White Swap

This card is by Judi
This one is from me (Loretta)
Debbie Gordon
Cindy
Becca Aiten

Good morning ladies and gentlemen!

I hope everyone is doing well on This monday morning.

I hope you are enjoying looking at the cars above! They are the terrific work of my swappers. Remember I am hosting two swaps one Vacation/Summer theme card swap and a mini composition swap. I hope you will join in!

I also hope that seeing these great cards will encourage you to participate. This way you can see the fao stuff yiou get back when you swap!

We rescued a third turtle yesterday! Another box turtle on the road. He wasn’t at all happy to be yanked up. Those things have sharp nails. We delivered him to some marshy area behind a local church. (With a prayer for his blessings !)

Blog candy addition Die cut pillow boxes made with some of my scraps.

Happy Stamping and happy blogging!

Check out my picturetrail site.

Black and White Card for Swap and the Great Turtle Rescue!

I hope that everyone is enjoying a beautiful Sunday!

Hind-sight is always 20/20 right?! Well, since I didn’t take pictures of this mornings strange happenings, I have to tell you the story.

Last night our area was hit hard by many thunderstorms that carried lightening, thunder and strong winds.

The neighborhood we live in did suffer a bit. At 8:00 this morning my sweet hubby gets up with our restless band of pups to take them out — only to find one of our neighbors in dire need of help. Her large barlette pear tree was mostly down, it missed her car and house by inches.

My hubby seeing her peril went over to ‘assist’ her. Once my youngest son had finished breakfast we went over to help as well. We sawed up some of the branches raked up and gave her the number to a good tree service.

Shortly after this a few very excited boys came over, there was a huge snapping turtle on the sidewalk close to what we refer to as the common area. Mike (my hero) decided to handle this critter. I went to get the car and we managed to get this very large turtle onto a tarp, wrap her up and depoit her in a small creek near the house. I think she was glad to get the heck out of there. (Oh on the way to getting her relocated, I had to rescue a small box turtle that was in the road) — Must be turtle rescue day!

Here is my recipe for the beautiful black and white card at the header to todays blog:
This is a very simple yet elegant card. Here is the recipe:

Card base is black and measures 5 1/2″ X 4 1/4″ ,For the next layer, I randomly stamped all the images from the botanicals set onto white card stock, cut it down to 4″X5 1/4″ for the first layer.
The black layer measures 4″X3″, I printed sheet music from 8notes.cfom, and used my nestability square to cut it down to approx 3 1/2″ X 3″.

The next black card stock layer is 3 X 2 1/4″, The main blossom from the set is layered onto the black with a piece of white card stock that measures 2 3/4″ X 2″.

I then cut a slit for the ribbon, the sentiment “blessings, is from Rubber soul, It is acutally an ‘easter blessings’ I only inked the ‘blessings’ part. This strip of white cs measures 3/4″ X 1”. It is attached ontop of the ribbon with two pop dots.

To finish off the card, I used a silver pen to highlight the details of the flower.
If you have any questions, please email me at Ms.Rhetta@verizon.net

Thank you for visiting.

Saturday — at the pool!

Card creation by my on-line stamping friend, Judi Markel, she made this card for my Black and White Card swap! Beautiful job Judi, thanks so much for participating in the swap. They will go postal on Monday June 10,2008.

It is hot. I mean dang hot. At 92* with it feeling like 102*. Let me tell you its hot!

I took the youngest Chad for a haircut and we headed for the pool. The last few times we have visited, the water was too cold to even think about getting in. Today, it was too hot to not get in! That water felt awesome!

Thie card above was done for the black and white swap I am currently hosting, it is by Judi Markel. I love how she combined the alcohol inks and stamped the panels on top. It is so beautiful.

If you would like to join in, I am hosting a Summer/Vacation theme mini-composition book swap and full size card swap. It will be a make 6 get six in return. Any stamps, colors, papers, embellishments, etc. At least two layers. Do your best work and something you would be proud of. At least two layers — please. Email me at ms.rhetta@verizon.net if you are planning to join!

This blog candy round will include folks that are out of the country. If I can ship to you from the US, you are elijible. Remember you can only win ever 6 months, but I hope if you win you’ll still visit and comment on the blog!

Today I’m adding to the pot $5.00. For every 30comments I get I will add $5.00 for a maximum of $50.00 this round of blog candy. No you’re not seeing things, the pot could potentially reach $50.00 (this is the maximum amount for this round regardless of the total number of comments left). For the remainder of this round of candy — you may comment anywhere, however I would prefer you comment on posts that are from June 1 through July 6th. Just makes it a bit easier for me to compile the names and draw the winner. Please hold your personal comments to five a day.

Also, Please leave a comment other than ‘thanks for the opportunity to win’. I welcome feedback and critiques! I appreaciate you, my blog readership.

Please check the splitcoast stampers swaps out as well. There are some really great ones going on at the current time.

That is all for today. Happy Stamping and have a great weekend.

Loretta

Gone to the Dogs!

Before we get started on the subject matter of today’s blog I need to send a big-ol‘ shout to my youngest son, Chad. Today was the last day of school. Yipee!

Ok, now to the subject at hand. My friend Barb came over for our ‘play’ date yesterday. We didn’t do much in the way of stamping, but did enjoy going out to lunch and just visiting.

With our three dogs, she is accustomed to them ‘greeting’ her at the door. They more or less jump all over her, lick her to bits and finally settle down to her visit.

This dear lady surprised them, she bought this huge jar of puppy treats for them. They didn’t get out of her bag and she had given them each one. Talk about quiet puppies, I’ve never seen them settle down so quickly. I need to leave treats at the front door.

Anyway, they settled down quickly. I had to ‘do’ something with this container.

I hope you will enjoy these pictures!

This is the back of the treat container
This is the front of the treat container
This is a 3X3 card I made (inspired by the container)
Here is another view of the 3X3 card, I hope you can see popped up detail of his face.

I choose colors that not only coordinated with the Theme of the project but also with my kitchen.

Blog candy will start today. It is gonna be a good pot this time as well. Our last blog candy winner, Theresa, I will make the post tomorrow with your goodies. I’ve even included a few ‘extra’s‘ I hope you will enjoy.

To begin our blog candy you can expect to receive a variety of sizzix die cuts. Including some felt flowers! Remember you may post any where on my blog. I will be drawing the next blog candy on July 6! Please enjoy my blog! Kick the tires and take it for a spin!

Happy Stamping!

Loretta

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